All organisms depend on habitats for food, water and shelter. Climate changes can effect this. It can alter behavior population sizes, species distributions, plant and animal communities, and ecosystem functions and stability. Species that have a small population are most at risk because they are not able to move to different habitats.
Egg laying, flowering, and spawning are occurring earlier in many species and in some cases it disrupts the delicate cycles that ensure that insects and other food are available for young animals.
Global warming increases droughts and is already causing extictions in vulnerable species. About 70 species of harlequin frogs in Central and South America have been driven to extinction by a disease that is linked with global warming. This is due to warmer temperatures that can cause increased cloud cover that creates conditions for a fungus that kills the frogs. Can you see how global warming can affect the ecosystem?
http://www.audubon.org/globalWarming/ImpactsBirdsWildlife.php#affects
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